C road crash in Dacorum HP23 on 18 January 1981 at 12:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Dacorum at 12:10 on Sunday 18 January 1981. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Jan 1981
- Sunday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.79826, longitude -0.67308, in the HP23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tring.
Map of where the crash happened in Dacorum
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 19814141D2005
- Council area
- Dacorum
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 February 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the B488 in Dacorum, 8 February 1987
At the same spotRef 19874141D2015
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B488 in Dacorum, 25 July 1991
At the same spotRef 19914141D0343
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B488 in Dacorum, 30 June 2003
20 m awayRef 20034100D0612
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B488 in Dacorum, 15 August 1999
20 m awayRef 19994100D0322
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B488 in Dacorum, 3 February 1999
20 m awayRef 19994100D0050
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B488 in Dacorum, 27 December 1998
22 m awayRef 19984100D0578
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 19814141D2005 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dacorum road accident statistics for 1981.